Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said that if his party is voted to power at the Centre, it would reform the current GST and simplify it by trying to make it a single-slab tax and cap it at a "decent" level.

Gandhi, who has been highly critical of the manner in which the tax was implemented and had termed it "Gabbar Singh Tax", said that a "huge amount" of confusion related to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) would also be removed.

"Our position is very clear. When we come to power, we will reform the current GST and simplify it. We will attempt to make it a one tax and cap it at a decent level. We will also try to remove the huge amount of confusion that you all are facing," he told professionals and entrepreneurs at an interaction here.

The Congress had a concept of GST, which was to simplify lives of the people, but it is complicated as of now, Gandhi said.

"We had the idea of having one tax and put those large number of items that are used by poor people and common man outside the GST. Cap the single tax at 18 per cent. That was our GST," he said.

The BJP and the NDA had a long-drawn battle with the Congress in Parliament over the tax, Gandhi said.

The Congress kept telling them not to put in place a five-tier GST and to do a pilot project before implementing the tax or otherwise it would be a "disaster", he said.

Gandhi said that before the GST was passed, former prime minister Manmohan Singh had met Finance minister Arun Jaitley with a message to do a pilot project before implementing it and that the party did not agree with a five-tier GST.

"You do not have majority in Parliament. You can bulldoze us in the Lok Sabha, but whatever you do, please do a pilot project. Do not put an untested system on 1.3 billion people... it will be a disaster," the Congress president said.

However, Jaitley's response was that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had taken a decision on the matter and it would be done at midnight on a specific date, he claimed.

"We said please tell Mr Modi that the systems have not been tested... websites have not been tested. Please test them, run the system for three months and then apply. They said no and the results are before us," Gandhi said.

The Congress president assured professionals and entrepreneurs that the specifics of GST-related problems would be raised in Parliament, if they provided details on the matter.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi today accused the NDA government of creating a "problem" in India's foreign policy and said the country stood "isolated" in the region.

Underlining China's expanding influence, Gandhi said the most important part of a country's foreign policy was having a "good relationship" with others.

"Today India is actually isolated in the region," he told professionals and business people here during an interaction on the last day of his four-day 'Janashirvad Yatra' in the northern region of poll-bound Karnataka.

India should work for creating as many jobs as there are in China, he said, adding that New Delhi must find a peaceful and not aggressive way to counter Beijing.

"We have to find a way, not an aggressive way, not a military way, but a peaceful way to compete with the Chinese," he said.

Gandhi referred to the "massive expansion" of Chinese presence in the region.

"You see the Chinese have a presence in Nepal, they have a presence in Pakistan, in Sri Lanka, in Maldives... They have a presence in Burma (Myanmar)," Gandhi added.

He said the NDA government had created a "problem" in India's foreign policy.

India's "old friend Russia" was now "cosying up to our neighbours on the western side", he said, adding, "This is actually a serious problem which is not getting discussed."

Hitting out at the Union government on employment generation, Gandhi claimed that while China was creating 50,000 jobs in 24 hours, the NDA government was generating 450 jobs in 24 hours.

"The simple thing is, there is only one measure, not two: how many jobs is India creating and how many jobs is China creating. I'm sad to say that over the last four years it (job creation) has become a really serious problem," he added.

On economic growth, he said India was "doing okay, (but) it was doing much better before".

The issue of jobs, he said, was not being publicly discussed.

"When it comes to jobs, India is failing completely and this is not something that is publicly in the discourse at all," he added.

Gandhi, however, conceded that to an extent even during the Congress-led UPA rule, "we were nowhere near the number of jobs that needed to be created".

He also spoke about the "massive increase" in the defence budgets of the U.S., China and Russia, and said, "We are now entering a new phase in world politics where you are going to see increased tension between U.S., China and Russians."

"In this situation, India has to have a clear understanding of the path going forward," he said.